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POCCET: Regolith Excavation & Rock Cleaner for Space Rovers

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Here is a system that uses compressed gas to perform excavation and cleaning tasks. POCCET is pneumatic system for mini space rovers. It weighs less than 300 grams and can be used not only on the moon but comets, asteroids, and Mars.

POCCET: a pneumatic cleaning and excavation system for mini space rovers

As the above video shows, this dust removal tool can be easily mounted to JPL’s PUFFER platform. POCCET can trench through regolith to expose subsurface lunar ice. Honeybee Robotics is behind this idea.

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Scaled Robotics’ Robots Can Digitize Construction Sites

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Here is a smart robot designed to automate the process of digitizing construction sites. Scaled Robotics’ robots use LiDAR to navigate and build maps of construction sites by fusing images, video, and data.

Digitizing construction sites with Scaled Robotics

These guys are refining technology used in driverless cars for the construction industry. The detailed data that these robots capture is a lot harder to capture just by humans.

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SEER Face Mirroring Robot Head

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Remember the SEER robot? It is a robot head that can maintain eye contact and imitate your facial expressions. The Simulative Emotional Expression Robot has two modes. It uses a camera to recognize and track facial features. The robot can mirror eyebrow/eyelid/head movements. The below video shows how it works:

ADIFO: Fully Functional Flying Saucer

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Flying saucers are not just part of science fiction anymore. A couple of Romanian engineers have developed a fully functional saucer with hyper-maneuverability. The ADIFO (All DIrections Flying Object) has a high lift/drag ratio and many other aerodynamic features.

DARPA’s Autonomous Swarm-Bot Experiment

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Researchers are always working on developing smarter swarming robots. DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics is a program that involves testing autonomous robots to complete tasks in the field. OFFSET is all about using these robots to isolate an urban objective. A human-swarm interface would enable users to monitor and direct hundreds of unmanned drones in real-time.

OFFSET will also have:

A real-time, networked virtual environment that would support a physics-based, swarm tactics game. In the game, players would use the interface to rapidly explore, evolve, and evaluate swarm tactics to see which would potentially work best, whether using various unmanned systems in the real world or exploring innovative synthetic technologies in the virtual one

Teams Test Swarm Autonomy in Second Major OFFSET Field Experiment

The above video shows a rent field experiment at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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Obexx AI Box Virtual Robot with Customizable Smart Avatar

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Meet the Obexx AI Box: a smart home system with a customizable virtual avatar that can read you the news, play your music, and control your smart home devices. You can create your own avatar by uploading a photo. Over 100 facial adjustment options are available.

DRL Racer4 Street Modular Racing Drone

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Meet the DRL Racer4 Street: a modular racing drone designed for your fast-paced aerial adventures. The DRL Racer4 features a 5S power system, 2510 stator and 7x4x3 props. The R4 uses a 2,200mah 70C pack and has a modular design.

YuMi Robot Can Test ATM Machines 24/7

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Testing ATM machines is going to be a whole lot easier and efficient when you can get robots to do it. The YuMi robot can test ATM software 24/7. This dual-armed software testing robot was designed to test Diebold Nixdorf’s ATMs.

HoLLiE Robot Decorating Cookies

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Robots can do many things for us already, including cooking burgers and baking bread. As this video from FZIchannel shows, robots can also be used to decorate cookies. For this project, service robot HoLLiE was used. It can decorate cookies with 4 different types of toppings.

SDR RC Lawn Mower Robot Kit

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Mowing the lawn is not everyone’s favorite activity. The good news is you can now get robots to do it. The SDR Lawn Mower Robot Kit is a robotic mower driven by 13-inch tires and powered by heavy-duty wheelchair motors. It has 6″ casters for easy maneuverability.

RC Lawn Mower Chassis Upfit Kit by SuperDroid Robots

NEW RC Chassis with Kobalt Electric Mower at SuperDroid Robots

The robot has max payload capacity of 100lb. The kit comes with a Kobalt 40-volt cordless electric lawnmower included.

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